Academic Positions:
Academic Positions:
February 2022-present: Assistant Professor (junior), University of Bologna.
October 2019-January 2022: Postdoctoral Researcher in Mathematics, University of Southampton.
February 2022-present: Assistant Professor (junior), University of Bologna.
October 2019-January 2022: Postdoctoral Researcher in Mathematics, University of Southampton.
October 2015-November 2019: PhD in Mathematics, University of Warwick. Advisor: Marco Schlichting.
September 2013-July 2015: MSc in Mathematics, Alma Mater Studiorum, University of Bologna. Final score: 110/110 Cum Laude.
September 2010-June 2013: BSc in Mathematics, Alma Mater Studiorum, University of Bologna. Final score: 110/110 Cum Laude.
June-July 2022 (6 weeks): Visiting Scholar (invited) in occasion of the INI Program "K-theory, algebraic cycles and motivic homotopy theory". Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences (INI), University of Cambridge.
19/01/2020-01/03/2020 (1.5 months): Visiting Scholar (invited) in occasion of the INI Program "K-theory, algebraic cycles and motivic homotopy theory". Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences (INI), University of Cambridge.
02/07/2018-06/07/2018 (1 week): Visiting Scholar (invited). University of Regensburg.
08/05/2017-21/07/2017 (2.5 months): Visiting Scholar (invited) in occasion of the Hausdorff Trimester Program " K-Theory and Related Fields". Hausdorff Institute for Mathematics (HIM), Bonn.
LMS Early Career Fellowship 2020.
EPSRC Doctoral Prize 2019. This prize is awarded to the best 10-15% EPSRC-funded PhD students in recognition of their research achievements.
After many years as a pure mathematician, I realised that I had spent a good amount of time studying Applied Mathematics, Computer Sciences, Artificial Intelligence and applications of Pure Maths to other fields simply because I was very interested in all of them. As a consequence, I began doing research in these areas becoming more involved in real world projects. I still mantain an active interest in Pure Mathematics and continue to do research on K-theory/homotopy theory and algebraic geometry: it seems that I am not able to commit myself to being only a pure mathematician or an applied one and this will be fine unless I have an identity crisis.
Pure:
F. Zanchetta, K-theory of forms via binary complexes. In preparation.
B. Köck, F.Zanchetta, Comparison of Exterior Power Operations on Higher K-Theory of Schemes. Mathematische Zeitschrift 2025. (link ).
F. Zanchetta, Unstable operations on K-theory for singular schemes. Advances in Mathematics, Volume 384, 2021.(link pdf )
F. Zanchetta, Embedding Divisorial Schemes into Smooth Ones. Journal of Algebra Vol.552:86-106, 2020. (link)(pdf)
F. Zanchetta, Operations in (Hermitian) K-Theory and related topics. PhD thesis, 2019.(pdf)
R. Fioresi and F. Zanchetta Representability in Supergeometry. Expo. Math. Vol.35 (3) , 2017. (link)(pdf)
Mathematics of Deep Learning:
R. Fioresi, F. Zanchetta, Deep Learning and Geometric Deep Learning: an introduction for mathematicians. International Journal of Geometric Methods in Modern Physics. (link)
M. Lapenna, F. Faglioni, F. Zanchetta, R.Fioresi, Geometric Deep Learning: a temperature based analysis of graph neural networks. Proceedings of GSI 23 (link) .
Applied:
Michela Lapenna, Athanasios Tsamos, Francesco Faglioni, Rita Fioresi, Ferdinando Zanchetta, Giovanni Bruno, Geometric Deep Learning for enhanced quantitative analysis of Microstructures in X-ray Computed Tomography Data. Discover Applied Sciences, 2025. (link )
A. Simonetti, F. Zanchetta, Graph Neural Networks and Time Series as Directed Graphs for Quality Recognition. Proceedings of GSI 2025, Lecture notes in Computer Science, Springer, 2025.(link )
A. Simonetti, F. Zanchetta, Graph Neural Networks and Time Series as Directed Graphs for Quality Recognition. Proceedings of GSI 2025, Lecture notes in Computer Science, Springer, 2025.(link )
C. P. Coutinho, A. Mehrab, J. Petkovic, F. Zanchetta, R. Fioresi, Enhancing CNNs robustness to occlusions with bioinspired filters for border completion. Proceedings of GSI 2025, Lecture notes in Computer Science, Springer, 2025. (link )
F. Zanchetta, A. Simonetti, G. Faglioni, A. Malagoli and R. Fioresi, A Geometric deep learning approach to blood pressure regression. Extended abstract accepted to GeoMedIA workshop 2022 (Link ).
C. P. Coutinho, F. Zanchetta, A. Galzignato, M. Batista, G. Lari, A. Stefano, E. Borrelli, G. Savini, M. L. Cascavilla, F. Bandello, R. Fioresi, P. Barboni, Machine Learning applied to Visual Fields of Dominant Optic Athrophy Patients. Translation Vision Science & Technology 14(6):20, 2025 (link).
M. Aneeqa, M. Lapenna, F. Zanchetta, A. Simonetti, G. Faglioni, A. Malagoli, R. Fioresi, Kolmogorov-Arnold and Long Short-Term Memory Convolutional Network Models for Supervised Quality Recognition of Photoplethysmogram Signals. Entropy, 2025. (link )
F. Zanchetta, A. Simonetti, G. Faglioni, A. Malagoli and R. Fioresi, A Geometric deep learning approach to ECG and PPG quality recognition. In progress.
P. Demurtas, J. Bertozzi, I. Di Silvestro, K. Carlin, I. Di Silvestro, A. Ghetti, B. Krause, G.Perini, F. Zanchetta, R. Fioresi, Gene Selection forprediction of transcriptome signl based on a machine learning approach. Discover Applied Sciences, 2025.(link )
In 24/25 I taught the following courses at Fabit department, University of Bologna:
Linear algebra, (Genomics Degree, Professor and course coordinator)
Elementi di Matematica, (Pharmacy degree, Professor and course coordinator)
In 24/25 I taught the following courses at Fabit department, University of Bologna:
Calculus (Genomics degree, Professor and course coordinator)
Linear algebra, (Genomics Degree, Professor and course coordinator)
Elementi di Matematica, module 2 (Pharmacy degree, Professor)
In 23/24 I taught the following courses at Fabit department, University of Bologna:
Calculus (Genomics degree, Professor and course coordinator)
Linear algebra, module 2 (Genomics Degree, Professor)
TA for undergraduate courses taught at Fabit department, University of Bologna, 2022
TA for MATH2049 (Geometry and Topology). Southampton, Semester 2, 2019/2020.
Teacher for MA131 (Analysis 1). Warwick Term 1, 2017/2018.
TA for Geometria 1 (Linear Algebra). University of Bologna, 1st Semester 2014/2015.
My native language is Italian, and I am fluent in English. I also speak a basic French.
Programming languages: Python, C++, C, Matlab, R, SQL.
Other computer skills: LaTex, Office package, Jupiter Notebooks, RStudio and RMD files.